Education
Soone was educated at Cambridge University, where he matriculated at Michaelhouse in 1544. He graduated Bachelor of Arts 1547, and proceeded Master of Arts
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William Soone
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At some date after 1549. He became doctor of civil and canon laws, probably at some university on the continent. The bursars" accounts of Caius College show that he was resident at Gonville Hall, probably as a fellow, from 1548 to 1555.
In 1561 he became regius professor of civil law, and in June of that year was admitted fellow of Trinity Hall.
His successor in the professorship, William Clerke, was appointed in 1563. Soone is said to have resided at Paris, Dol, Freiburg, and Padua, and to have been a professor of law for some time at Leuven.
From Leuven he went, most likely, to Antwerp, where he acted as assistant to Abraham Ortelius. In 1572 he was at Cologne.
He then passed to Rome, and had some papal appointment.
